Fireplace



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Fire Piace.

VNo. 27,741. y A Patented April 3, 1860.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES K. ROSS, OF LEBANON, OHIO.

FIREPLACE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,741, dated April 3, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that\I, JAMES K. Ross, of Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fireplaces; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My improvement in connection with a customary open lire place of a system of passages, Sac., for the purpose of supplying apartments with properly warmed and moistened fresh air.

In the accompanying drawing A, B, are two apartments-one of which contains an open iron fire place or boX O of which a rear portion only is represented. The upper part of this fire box communicates with a tubular metallic chimney c. The fire box O is set a little in front of the back wall D, and its sides converge slightly away from the jambs E so as to form in the rear of the fire box a chamber F for heating air admitted from without through a grated inlet Gr.

II is a deflecting plate, which compels the air to first descend to the bottom of the chamber F.

I are water vessels placed in contact with the fire boX.

J is a feed cock and K is a door through which to replenish the vessels I with water. The door K may also serve as a man hole for cleansing or repairing the chamber F.

L are pipes by which any desired portion of the air may be conducted to one or more apartments B.

M M are registered apertures by which the heated and moistened fresh air may be admitted at desired places and quantities. N is a damper, by which the air entrance may be contracted or closed at will. The same passages may be used very advantageously for summer and nocturnal ventilation.

I claim as new and of my invent-ion herein and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The arrangement in the rear of an open lire place O of a heating chamber F, vaporizing apparatus I J K and registered communication G N L M M with both the eX- ternal and the internal air 'as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

JAMES K. ROSS.

I/Vitness es GEO. H. KNIGHT, JNO. W. CLUTE. 

